CINEMA AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY AS RESOURCES OF TEACHING AND LEARNING

This contribution presents the research project titled "Cinema at School" regarding the proposal to introduce the cinema at school oriented to promote the media education and enhance the teaching of digital tools dedicated to the film editing and the film language analysis. Film is the first multimedia object that, from its origin, served to overcome the limits of the human eye. The use of cinema in educational context can reinforce the learning of single topics, and at the same time, it produces a contribution to interdisciplinary learning approach when the use is specially oriented to explore other topics. Film at school can act as an analytical-documentary resource and as a creative teaching resource, by virtue of its versatile and multidimensional nature. We should not forget the magic lantern, a device precursor of the cinema, it has been not only used for entertainment purposes but also to deliver lectures on several topics from science to arts and literature. Film is a teaching resource characterized by the power to “transport” the class into any possible spatial-temporal or interdisciplinary dimension.